Support Systems

SS_KeepingChooks
Healthy happy backyard chooks.




Theory

  • Why keep chooks?
  • What type of chooks?
  • Getting your garden ready for chooks
  • Housing your chooks (including chook tractors)
  • Feeding and watering you chooks
  • Organic treatments for common chook problems using herbs and home made treatments
  • Chooks in the garden system
  • Incorporating free range chooks into your garden and food forests
  • Council regulations

Practical

  • Holding a chook
  • Preparing and adding organic preps to their water
 
SS_SupportSpecies


... and the award for the best support species goes to...


Theory
  • Identifying common support species in a sustainable garden
  • The role of support species in an edible garden, orchard and food forest
  • Using them in garden design
  • Exploring the many uses of plants and their benefits
  • Growing your own mulch, fertilisers and compost activators
  • Growing your own shade and structural plants

Practical

  • Identifying various species and how to grow them
 


Note: Depending on the level of garden party being delivered (Appetiser or Main Course) the above descriptions may vary.